Lets try to get to know what is so terribly wrong with Tun Mahathir 3 Stooges(aka Bkt Chagar CIQ, JB Sentral and The Crooked bridge):
(1) It is just so damn far.
-Walking from JB center of Jln Wong Ah Fook will take 15mins to reach the main entrance of CIQ.
-From there you need to walk 10mins in one big round within the new CIQ before reaching the buses pickup points.
-Waiting bus will take 15 minutes(if you are lucky),
-And another 30 minutes for the bus to reach Singapore during peak hour,
-So now a kaki tambak has to spend 70mins(15+10+15+30) to travel from Jln Wong Ah Fook to reach Woddlands Checkpoint.
-Compare to old times, a walk from Jln Wong Ah Fook to Singapore chechkpoint took a max of 25mins(some kaki tambak can do it in 15mins)
-That is 35mins for morning and 35minutes for evening Which means a total 70 mins wasted per day per kaki tambak.
A conservative estimate of manhour loss
= ((70/60)per hour per day per kaki tambak) X 200000kaki tambak X SGD8.00 per hour
= SGD1866666.67 or RM4424000.00 per day
OR a yearly loss = RM4424000.00/day X 5day per week X 52 week per year
= RM1150240000 or RM1.15billion per year
(2) SO can anyone walk from Bkt Chagar CIQ to Woodlands checkpoint?
Yes, provided you can last the 50 minutes trekking up and down in dangerous traffic.
(PS:No allocation for a pedestrian path was allocated to this multi-billion Ringgit CIQ).
Every weekends or any other time when busses are insufficient,
kaki tambak will just walk through pain and exhaustion either for work or to go home.
From my personal observation, it seems that more and more kaki tambak are walking with limp at BKT Chagar(myself included)
(3) A dead end for most bicyclist.
From my earlier post, I have blog about my new found joy of cycling to work.
To cycle from Bkt Chagar to woodlands is like going through Tour De France.
Sadly many bicyclist have given up because its just to arduos. Many like myself have also succumbed to leg injury.
4) If the crooked bridge were to proceed, it will only subject the kaki tambak community to more physical torture.
5) The ghostly JB Sentral.
The supposedly new JB bus,train and taxi complex was built to serve the Bkt Chagar CIQ.
The problem with this busses or train does not go or stops there at the moment.
The car park is not in operation and way too small for a city like JB.
Why the rush to open the new CIQ without JB Sentral being in operation?
This akin to expecting an engine to run without fuel delivery system. Malaysia Boleh.
Furthermore, if JB Sentral were to be put in operation it will spell death to business at other parts of JB town.
No matter how you look at it these 3 stooges is going to be dead end.
Then why is our Tun Mahathir so viciously pushing these projects.
For the answer we have to back back 15-20 years or so.
At that time (before 2nd Link was built) , a lot of anonymous people sprout up from no where to buy lands in backwaters of Gelang Patah.
Those days it was just plantation and forests. Now it is home to some very lacklustre port&free trade zone,government township and residential area.
The final plot is:
Imagine if the old causeway were to be demolished, millions of people will thronged the 2nd link out of desparation.
The land prices there will skyrockect, and certain anonymous people will earn multi billions in an instant.
1 comment:
The decision makers (the filthy UMNO politicians) do not walk or even ever take a bus, nor do they care about the daily life of the rakyat.
Your final plot perhaps explains why there are some people who are so eagerly trying to revive the stupid crooked idea - they must have massive area of land stocked up at Gelang Patah area.
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